Lela Rekhviashvili

International Journal of Sociology and Social PolicyVol. 35 No. 7/8, 2015, pp. 478-496

The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the reasons behind a decade long contestations between the Georgian government and the petty traders over the access to the public space for commercial use. Read More →

Melanie Krebs

International Journal of Sociology and Social PolicyVol. 35 No. 7/8, 2015pp. 550-564

Moral values and behavioural codes that governed the urban life and the appropriation ofurban spaces changed significantly in Baku over the last two decades leading to conflicts over the rightbehaviour in the city and about the question who has the right to set the rules in public spaces. Read More →

Jeremy Nemeth & Stephen Schmidt

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 38(1), 5-23.

Privately owned public spaces are frequently criticized for diminishing the publicness of public space by restricting social interaction, constraining individual liberties, and excluding undesirable populations. This study empirically determines whether, as is commonly believed, privately owned public spaces are more controlled than publicly owned spaces. Read More →

DON MITCHELL

Annals of the Association of American Geographers85(1), 108-133.

The nature of public space in contemporary society is changing. This paper uses the turmoil over People's Park in Berkeley, California, as a means for exploring changing ideas about and practices in public space.Read More →

Don Mitchell

Political Geography 24 (2005) 77–100

Recent United States Supreme Court decisions concerning protest outside health clinics that provide abortions, coupled with a new wave of ‘‘aggressive panhandling’’ ordinances being adopted by American cities, indicate that Courts and lawmakers are creating a new model of citizenship.... Read More →

Donovan Finn

Journal of Urbanism: International research on placemaking and urban sustainability, 7(4), 381-398.

Richard Longstreth’s landscape of fear has also created a new structure of feeling in New York City, not only because of architectural changes, but because of the state and citizen paranoia that stimulates the restricted use of public space and ethnic profiling of users, reinforced by new regulations and land use policies.... Read More →

Jason Henderson

Antipode, 41(1), 70-91.

Recently a “mobility turn” has entered critical geographic discourse. This mobility turn recognizes that mobility is at once physical movement and contains social meanings that are manifested in a politics of mobility. In this paper... Read More →